It’s a wonderful day, a terrifying day. Today's the day you finally asked Sunset Shimmer out on a date!

If only you had remembered to tell her it was a date...

A light-hearted parody of 2nd-person stories via a “sort-of story” about how I use description in my actual stories and why. An extended version of this. You can direct all pitchforks and torches toward this guy.

The unabridged version of this story is now live! You can read it over here!

Princess Luna has earned her rightful redemption in the eyes of her subjects. Sunset Shimmer enjoys a human life free from her past nightmares.

Only one of them is true.

When Luna discovers Twilight’s journal to the human world, she searches the dreamscape for Sunset Shimmer’s dream. She does not like what she finds there.

Compelled by her duty to her subjects—both near and far—she knows she must right the wrongs her former self twisted into reality. But deep are the wounds hidden from sight, and just as deep are the risks she must take in order to bring peace, both to Sunset Shimmer and herself.

Darkness holds dominion over the world. Cinders of Sun and Moon gathered from a long-forgotten catastrophe are all that remain to shelter the village from the consuming void. But their power wanes. Lanterns of Sun and Moon held close against his chest, a stallion takes up the mantle of light bearer and forges into the abyss to return light to a world that has all but forgotten it.

Beyond the safety of the village gates, he will meet a voice of shadows and starlight, and many are the revelations it has of the world he thought he knew so well.

Time marches ever onward, heedless of two ponies it left to sift through the fragments of their shattered lives for a reason to spread their wings and soar. Only darker skies await them, but above the clouds, the sun still shines.

A mysterious “World Circus” has come to Ponyville; though, not all is as it seems. When Twilight learns the motives behind the grandeur, she finds only death and despair lying within its machinations. But somewhere in the illusions and fabricated realities lies the truth she so desperately must find to save herself and the world as she knows it.